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1.1Assemble and adjust (the equipment of a sailboat, aircraft, etc.) to make it ready for operation.

‘most sails are kept ready rigged’

‘Speaking from the yacht yesterday, crewman Christian Hankel said they were moving well, a mast and sail had been rigged and the engine was working.’

‘I want that schooner mast patched and sail rigged as soon as possible.’

‘When Armand glanced out again early in the morning light he saw an old aluminum fishing skiff with an outboard astern, sporting an orange plastic tarp rigged amidships over the loading boom as a tent.’

‘They started rigging up the aircraft after unloading it from a trailer but the pilot was interrupted twice.’

‘The topmen were already working to rig the last of the sail and running rigging.’

‘At first when sails triumphed over oars, a large square sail was rigged on the mainmast while two smaller sails fore and aft gave the ship maneuverability.’

‘Using powerful floodlights to attract the delicacy known to the Japanese as ika, the boats employ sails which are rigged astern to reduce the ship's roll in the ocean swells.’

‘Gliders are left rigged ready for re-use in the hangar’

‘It may seem odd to see people rigging sails on their ships in space at first but what a glorious backdrop this is.’

‘He looked up at the starry sky, at the one sail they had rigged, and then at the ship's deck.’

‘He told Matthews of his desire to have all available sail rigged and set.’

‘The equipment, about the size of a satellite dish, is rigged to the side of the ship.’

‘The flight controls had been carefully rigged to fractions of a degree while the wing slats were removed and then refitted to ensure a perfectly smooth fit.’

‘Apparently, the machine had been incorrectly rigged and Bob had his hands full in getting the Heinkel back on the ground.’

‘When more medical supplies arrived, LAC Williams and I unloaded the aircraft, re - rigged it for the return journey and carried litter patients to the aircraft.’

‘They rigged two mooring legs on the ship's fantail, consisting of anchors, chain and heavy cable attached to two buoys.’

1.2Set up (equipment or a device or structure), typically hastily or in makeshift fashion.

‘he had rigged up a sort of tent’

‘the crew began to rig the camera equipment on a platform’

‘Using more pipe fittings, we rigged up a weather vane, and then we were ready to install the dish roof.’

‘Now and again the speeches would be interrupted for volleys of gunfire over the graves and choruses of martial-sounding music from loudspeakers rigged up around the cemetery.’

‘He walked to a computer terminal, the display of which was rigged up to project its image onto a large white screen at the front of the briefing room.’

‘The poverty-stricken young Joe rigged up a make-do punchbag in his rickety garden shed.’

‘Part of the pub has been sealed off to the form the ‘house’ and cameras have been rigged up, allowing fellow drinkers to monitor the progress of the contestants.’

‘By this point he had won the trust and respect of the subjects of his documentary to such an extent that they also acted as crew members for him, rigging up makeshift lights and constructing dollies that would run on the existing tracks.’

‘Nasa had provided forceps and astronauts had rigged up a makeshift hacksaw for Robinson to use if the gap-fillers proved difficult to remove.’

‘Liberty's dad had been so tired of yelling all through the house for his children, that he rigged up a telephone system to each room.’

‘Many fans that can't afford a generator have rigged up their televisions to car batteries to beat the blackouts.’

‘The police have rigged up lights to keep watch, ordered taxi drivers not to pick him up, seized his home computer and cut off his telephone.’

‘In fact, I heard him only after the dispute began over the private kitchen he had rigged up for himself.’

‘The results began to trickle through on the ship's radio late at night; excitement grew as we strained to hear the results on the loudspeaker, rigged up for us by the Chief Engineer.’

‘Jonah rigged up a narrow plywood sheet with screws threaded in at various points; it's now our camera mount and steadicam in one.’

‘Encased for months in plaster body casts, Kahlo began to paint lying in bed with a special easel rigged up by her mother.’

‘Until now, if your boat didn't have hot water the next best solution was to rig up a sun shower or heat up a pot on the stove.’

‘Surely he'd seen the commode in the corner of the dining room, because that thing was not completely hidden by the screen they had rigged up, no matter what Dottie said.’

‘The next day a still was rigged, using wood from the wings as fuel.’

‘The protesters rigged up a sound system outside the chief executive's home and blasted out aircraft noise for 15 minutes.’

‘Various cars he'd wrecked littered the long drive and when I eventually found him he was riding a donkey over whose head he'd rigged up some wing mirrors.’

‘There is no play tomorrow because the arena is being rigged up for television coverage which starts on Saturday.’

‘Sure it's fun to get rigged up in some flapping strides and dance along to some dire disco every once in a while.’

‘He said: ‘It is intolerable that girl pupils should go into school rigged out in a dishcloth!’’

‘Hosannas to Ridley Scott, who made a star out of Sigourney Weaver by rigging her in a tight jumpsuit and launching her into space.’

‘But I did laugh very merrily when the reception manager made his way around the courtyard diners, rigged up in full Father Christmas gear and gumboots five sizes too big.’

‘Do the seven-day trip rigged out in ponchos and fleece chaps just like local cowboys.’

‘The man, upon seeing a knight rigged out in full armor sticking a lance in his face, fears for his life.’

‘At the top end of the glen darts of sunshine poked through the billowing clouds and encouraged us to go for it and, fully rigged up in waterproofs, we were soon splashing our way up into the Lairig Eilde.’

noun

1The particular way in which a sailboat's masts, sails, and rigging are arranged.

‘the yacht will emerge from the yard with her original rig’

‘She has 27 sails in a frigate rig on three masts and a bowsprit, with a total surface area of 2,683 square metres.’

‘In the late 19th century there were frequent matches as it was a way of testing design and modifying sailing rigs for maximum performance.’

‘If you have decided to store your boat ashore during hurricane season, the only safe way to do it is to remove the rig, dig a hole, and set the boat in the hole resting on overlapping tyres.’

‘The object of their game was to identify the rigs on the sailboats which appeared.’

‘They range from gaff rigs, Clyde Silver yachts and even a Custom's Pinnace.’

‘The sailing rig is hypothetical and based on Roman practice.’

‘The rig is fractional and most boats were sold with a mainsail and 120% jib as standard equipment.’

‘The Finn, Europe and Laser have a single sail, while the 470 class has a two-sail rig.’

‘For these sailors, catboats offer one of the simplest of all sailing rigs to manage.’

‘The rig is a simple deck-stepped mast-head sloop with single upper shrouds and spreaders, double lower shrouds and split backstay.’

‘The radial consists of a 5.76 square metre sail area compared to the regular rig of 7.06.’

‘He owned his first yacht when he was twenty four, a sailing dinghy with a rig of his own design, built in water-resistant ply - unusual for those days.’

1.1The sail, mast, and boom of a sailboard.

‘Mowday, who runs a factory in central Taiwan producing parts for windsurfing rigs and snowboard bindings, became one of the first to pioneer sailing in Penghu when he began windsurfing there six or seven years ago.’

‘My 13-year-old son has no problem with balance and control on his windsurfing rig, but I struggle to stay on the board, never mind hauling up the sail, when I usually fall in!’

‘Rent a rig at Windsurfing Hatteras, which also offers kiteboarding lessons.’

‘Windsurfing International was an American company which had a patent for the rig used on a windsurfer.’

‘Having lost his sail and rig, he was found curled around a buoy clinging to his board by a coastguard rescue helicopter from Lee-on-the-Solent.’

2An apparatus, device, or piece of equipment designed for a particular purpose.

‘Since these were to be gaming rigs their specification was suitably high.’

‘Both of these concealment rigs are available for the Colt Single Action and I use both of them frequently.’

‘CMS, based at the Chamber of Commerce headquarters in Little Germany, provided the ATA Carnet documents for the lighting rigs, sound systems, stage sets and costumes.’

‘Great rigs, especially for gaming, are a synergy between the tower and a host of other peripherals.’

‘It makes it easier for Baker Marine to make these rigs for their clients with our help.’

‘Costs about a grand, but you can make your guitar sound like literally anything; from basses to the specific rigs of your favourite guitarist; from a keyboard to your own customised wall of squalling white noise and feedback.’

‘Supporting six platoons - each platoon loaded with 18 sets of diving rigs, dive team members have their work cut out for them.’

‘Meanwhile, PC gamers were getting their first gander at Doom 3, and collectively wondering just how much they would need to upgrade their rigs in order to be able to run the thing.’

‘The theatre's lighting rig and other equipment are included in the sale.’

‘The second rig is a paternoster which can be used with dead or live baits.’

‘To supply warships at sea the ship has three main refuelling rigs and a crane rig for smaller vessels, and the vessel also has a large flight deck and hangar facilities for Merlin helicopters.’

‘Plans for the gallery are to create a new exhibition space behind the main entrance, complete with a lighting rig and new wall.’

‘If you really want to get crazy, then you can set up two MIDI keyboards and use them in the dual-manual fashion with a foot-pedal rig to play bass, just like the genuine article.’

‘Look a bit further and you will find a whole host of lighting rigs, sound booms, directors, camera men and wardrobe ladies all huddled around a monitor as they watch the latest medical emergency unfold.’

‘Melancholy fills the air as cables and lighting rigs are dismantled.’

‘However, the American-style performance will surely work well under the slick lighting and sound rigs of a purpose-built theatre and the high element of audience participation should jolly everyone along.’

‘Either rig will capture most of the toxic dust sanding generates - but not all of it.’

‘Though they are not ships, oil and gas rigs in the ocean, and transoceanic cables too, are as worthy of naval attack and defense as any ship might be.’

‘Oil prices shot up nearly US $1.50 a barrel yesterday as oil and natural gas producers evacuated rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.’

‘When he went there, Chesebrough noticed that roughnecks who worked the rigs were maddened by a gelatinous black gunk that clogged up their drills.’

‘He's part of a team studying whether the growing number of gas rigs is driving the birds away and hastening their decline.’

‘Lead anodes also have high resistance to corrosion by seawater, making them economical to use in systems for the cathodic protection of ships and offshore rigs.’

‘About 100 workers at five Tarananki onshore oil and gas exploration rigs in New Zealand's central North Island returned to work on November 21.’

‘Work boats will service the rig from the Geraldton Port, while the helicopters will be based at Geraldton Airport.’

‘But there is a bigger threat to their industry that may prove harder to disarm - the risk that fishermen jump ship for high wages on the rigs.’

‘Even a relatively small leak in the pipelines that carry oil and gas from offshore rigs to onshore facilities could leave hundreds of miles of coastline on Alaska's North Slope awash in oil.’

‘The 324-ft-high rigs tower over the Portland waterfront.’

‘Huge wages were paid to men on the rigs in those days, and were the envy of us landlubbers.’

‘Traders were hoping that Wednesday's US petroleum inventories report would suggest how badly the young Atlantic hurricane season had hurt production at offshore rigs.’

‘Production was cut at its rigs in the Gulf of Mexico and at onshore refineries such as Texas City, which was also the scene of a fatal fire in March.’

‘The US Coast Guard said at least seven rigs are adrift, while eight refineries have shut down.’

‘It was established that the East London crew was the closest helicopter team capable of landing on the rig.’

‘The rig is on contract from Diamond Offshore Drilling in the United Kingdom.’

‘But it's interesting to see the number of rigs piling up in the Cromarty Firth.’

‘The development of onshore power generation facilities for rigs is also being pushed forward to free up offshore gas for sale - previously platforms would have used their own supply to power themselves.’

‘Salvors plan to install a rig on to the seabed next to the vessel to speed up the clearance process.’

‘The cab is descended from the rickshaw and the carriage, whereas the rig is descended from the locomotive, the wagon, and the steamship.’

‘He covered the area from Bellevue to Snoqualmie Pass and spent many cold winter days and nights rescuing stalled vehicles and broken-down big rigs from the mountains.’

‘The next time you see a big rig hauling the Marine Corps message, give honk to show our appreciation.’

‘A larger, newer tractor-trailer rig will run close to half a million dollars.’

‘The rig careened by nipping the pickup flat against its bed.’

‘Previously, the Teamsters operated the warehouses and drove to the stores, but did not pull the rigs into the loading docks.’

‘Wednesday, Thursday and Friday were a treat for many as the petrol trucks, big rigs and high-powered tractors all had to use the by-pass N17 for the duration.’

‘The use of a passageway by noisy delivery trucks would be hard to hide. The use of a lane for passage by tractor-trailer rigs with motors roaring and air brakes hissing would be difficult to disguise.’

‘We passed by a tractor trailer rig that had been blown over in the wind.’

‘Firstly, Ritchie testified that although he had been driving trucks for all of his working life, he first became involved in driving large tractor-trailer rigs when he started with Marcus.’

‘On one side of the road was a face of granite, on the other was a 1,000-foot cliff, and a fully-loaded tractor-trailer rig was steaming up toward them in the oncoming lane.’

‘Night missions also minimize the potential of heat casualties - the tractor-trailer rigs are not air conditioned and the Soldiers in the gun trucks are in open sun.’

‘State troopers say at least three tractor trailer rigs were among the 25 vehicles in that collision, and that three minor injuries were reported.’

4.1US Another type of vehicle, such as a horse-drawn carriage.

‘This truck is the smaller of the team's rigs - the one that it uses for most of its travel outside of Spain, save for the Tour de France, where it also uses its bigger Spain-based truck.’

‘Should make for a most excellent ride on Saturday when hoards of local single speeders gather to test their skills piloting their rigs in the white stuff.’

‘Since then that humble, hardy workhorse has gone on to evolve into everything from plush passenger vehicles to muscular military rigs like the Hum Vee.’

‘Gathering their favorite dual suspension rigs, Kabush and Toulouse held later starting times by virtue of their high rankings on overall classification.’

‘The ‘Stab Garbonzo’ is a full-suspension rig designed to take the abuse of temporary riders on 2,165 feet of vertical drop.’

‘The driver of the No.5 Lowe's Racing rig is Dave Radney, and he takes good care of the crew.’

‘Instead, having traded his big rig for a little rig, Meade now drives a pickup truck and spends his days running errands around town.’

‘He's on a silver mountain bike, one of those cheap, full-suspension rigs you see in department stores.’

Pronunciation:

rig

Main definitions of rig in English

rig2

verb

1Manage or conduct (something) fraudulently so as to produce a result or situation that is advantageous to a particular person.

‘the results of the elections had been rigged’

[as noun, in combination]‘charges of vote-rigging’

‘Yet prosecutors accuse the jailed tycoon of rigging an auction to gain control of Apatit a decade ago and then failing to pay the bid of US $283 million.’

‘Thousands of protesters rallied today, north of Baghdad, in the Sunni city of Samarra, charging the vote was rigged and demanding new elections.’

‘They're also alleging that she rigged last year's election.’

‘The elections were so clearly rigged that six of the main opposition parties made a joint declaration on election day denouncing electoral fraud and withdrawing their candidates.’

‘It had started out pretty innocently; a trick glass here, a rigged deck of cards there.’

‘In villages where the population density is relatively low, he hopes observers would also manage to check whether voters' lists are rigged.’

‘Voting - notoriously viewed as being regularly rigged in Europe - will be in the hands of viewers.’

‘We must rescue the political institutions of all nations from the corruption of corporate power, which rigs elections, distorts fair trade within and between nations, and puts profits before humanity.’

‘He could be installed again, or his thugs may rig some things in his favor, but that's all different.’

‘What Davis described in his speech, a nationwide drive to overturn elections and rig the political system, is a deadly serious matter.’

‘They claim that the poll was rigged, distorted, or a flat out lie.’

‘Fiddling became fraud when enrolments were rigged.’

‘Spitzer recently investigated bid rigging in the insurance field.’

‘He insisted that the parliamentary poll was free from political interference, but promised to investigate allegations of vote rigging.’

‘The MDC, along with Britain, the European Union and the US, has refused to accept the results, saying voting was rigged and influenced by violence and intimidation.’

‘America has a long history of vote tampering and rigged elections in many local jurisdictions.’

‘The result was forged turnout figures and rigged elections.’

‘These individuals are thought of as having rigged the system to gain control of the country's petroleum wealth.’

‘West Yorkshire police said further arrests were expected as part of an ongoing investigation into ballot rigging in the Bradford area.’

‘Once you have the positional advantage you have rigged the race so you can't lose.’